"A PhD is not and should not be a requirement to engineering design jobs. I don't know anyone who's ever claimed it was."
I see it listed as a requirement for many engineering jobs particularly in the defense industry. It is true that some of these listings allow you to substitute work experience for advanced degrees (e.g. 10 years experience with BS, 5 years experience with an MS).
"But you should be aware that very few hiring managers will read past the first page."
I find it interesting that while there's all kinds of articles with dos and don'ts for somebody looking for a job (often contradictory), you rarely see one telling companies how to do a better job selecting candidates.
Shouldn't a hiring manager read the whole resume? Don't these people want to do a good job?
Well, if your point was limited to saying that anyone who said "Good, more jobs for the rest of us" is unqualified to replace a Phd and everybody else might be able to, then I see your point.
If a company is really serious about a project, they'll hire the most qualified people available. Those available people may or may not have the exact qualifications they are looking for.
If they can afford to sit on their hands and wait for everything they want in a candidate, either the project isn't that important to the company or they already have the number of people they really need to get it done.
I'm convinced that some companies deliberately post jobs that they have no intention to fill just so they can say they can't find qualified candidates in the US.
"Most of the people I have met who have expressed that sentiment lacked the qualifications to fill a job vacancy left by someone with a PhD in a science or engineering field."
The real question is whether the job ever really required a PhD in the first place. Among well-known programmers and engineers without Phd's there is Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, and Will Wright.
The list doesn't prove that anybody can excel without a Phd, but it does illustrate that it's rarely required to accomplish significant things.
"Majority Rule is NOT the answer, belief in individual / natural rights and responsibilities are. The basic problem is the majority in CA and much of the US is under educated and currently under employeed and look for Government to fill the trough so they can continue to feed in a way they think they have earned by their very existance."
You remind me of people who were asked about a proposed law without being told it was the Bill of Rights and were totally against it.
Natural rights are all about what people deserve "by their very existance".
Unless it involves real evidence that relates to the alleged crime, I can't image why the courts would have any opinion at all.
It amazes me that some Slashdotters (not necessarily the parent) who pride themselves on believing in the most remote stretches of "freedom" fail to understand how it applies in it's most obvious and direct form of free speech. The government can't arbitrarily order websites to add or remove any content about an individual no matter how much the Slashdott crowd may hate him or assume he's guilty before a trial.
A reduction in real estate taxes was just Prop 13's Trojan Horse.
Besides, whatever you may have saved in real estate taxes you paid in the form of a higher home price since home owners can sit on their house until they get the price they want.
The main reason that CA lawmakers have trouble "cleaning house" is because of that "lefty" proposition 13 that allows 1/3 of the lawmakers to block any bill that raises taxes. A return to majority rule would get CA moving again.
So your theory is that hearing about punishment in places far away from home is more effective in deterring crime than hearing about punishment in your own community?
"Those who do not understand TCP/IP are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
Yes, because TCP/IP is the best protocol in the universe for now and forever. I don't get young geeks infatuation with 70s/80s technologies. If my generation had the same infatuation with the 50s/60s there wouldn't have been a TCP/IP to argue about.
Well, even young guys who get sentenced to 150 years sometimes get out in their lifetime. The point is that you haven't presented any evidence that in general white-collar criminals are treated more harshly than other criminals.
I don't claim that Windows thread pools are equivalent to GCD, but you can have the OS handle asynchronous tasks using the thread pool without having to concern yourself with threads explicitly.
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"A PhD is not and should not be a requirement to engineering design jobs. I don't know anyone who's ever claimed it was."
I see it listed as a requirement for many engineering jobs particularly in the defense industry. It is true that some of these listings allow you to substitute work experience for advanced degrees (e.g. 10 years experience with BS, 5 years experience with an MS).
"Programming and engineering jobs don't have a PhD as a required qualification."
So companies like MS never complain about a lack of qualified candidates in the US?
I'll let someone who is more knowledgeable of those fields handle that question.
"But you should be aware that very few hiring managers will read past the first page."
I find it interesting that while there's all kinds of articles with dos and don'ts for somebody looking for a job (often contradictory), you rarely see one telling companies how to do a better job selecting candidates.
Shouldn't a hiring manager read the whole resume? Don't these people want to do a good job?
Well, if your point was limited to saying that anyone who said "Good, more jobs for the rest of us" is unqualified to replace a Phd and everybody else might be able to, then I see your point.
This is something that makes no sense to me.
If a company is really serious about a project, they'll hire the most qualified people available. Those available people may or may not have the exact qualifications they are looking for.
If they can afford to sit on their hands and wait for everything they want in a candidate, either the project isn't that important to the company or they already have the number of people they really need to get it done.
I'm convinced that some companies deliberately post jobs that they have no intention to fill just so they can say they can't find qualified candidates in the US.
"Most of the people I have met who have expressed that sentiment lacked the qualifications to fill a job vacancy left by someone with a PhD in a science or engineering field."
The real question is whether the job ever really required a PhD in the first place. Among well-known programmers and engineers without Phd's there is Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, and Will Wright.
The list doesn't prove that anybody can excel without a Phd, but it does illustrate that it's rarely required to accomplish significant things.
Unfortunately, God didn't forbid it so cuts were made with the result that California has been going down hill for almost 30 years.
"I'm pissing myself with laughter over here"
I've always suspected that those who are against all tax increases have poor bladder control. Perhaps it's linked with being an anal retentive.
"Majority Rule is NOT the answer, belief in individual / natural rights and responsibilities are. The basic problem is the majority in CA and much of the US is under educated and currently under employeed and look for Government to fill the trough so they can continue to feed in a way they think they have earned by their very existance."
You remind me of people who were asked about a proposed law without being told it was the Bill of Rights and were totally against it.
Natural rights are all about what people deserve "by their very existance".
Surely some jobs were lost when IBM put more emphasis on Linux and thus didn't require as many workers to support it.
Unless it involves real evidence that relates to the alleged crime, I can't image why the courts would have any opinion at all.
It amazes me that some Slashdotters (not necessarily the parent) who pride themselves on believing in the most remote stretches of "freedom" fail to understand how it applies in it's most obvious and direct form of free speech. The government can't arbitrarily order websites to add or remove any content about an individual no matter how much the Slashdott crowd may hate him or assume he's guilty before a trial.
You mean anyone who disagrees with Obama's policies makes IBM racist?
A reduction in real estate taxes was just Prop 13's Trojan Horse.
Besides, whatever you may have saved in real estate taxes you paid in the form of a higher home price since home owners can sit on their house until they get the price they want.
The main reason that CA lawmakers have trouble "cleaning house" is because of that "lefty" proposition 13 that allows 1/3 of the lawmakers to block any bill that raises taxes. A return to majority rule would get CA moving again.
Actually, that's a pretty good idea but I'm not sure TCP/IP is really up to the task.
So your theory is that hearing about punishment in places far away from home is more effective in deterring crime than hearing about punishment in your own community?
I don't recall saying anything specifically about federal crimes.
"Those who do not understand TCP/IP are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
Yes, because TCP/IP is the best protocol in the universe for now and forever. I don't get young geeks infatuation with 70s/80s technologies. If my generation had the same infatuation with the 50s/60s there wouldn't have been a TCP/IP to argue about.
Yes, and that's why Windows users still can't connect to the Internet.
Well, even young guys who get sentenced to 150 years sometimes get out in their lifetime. The point is that you haven't presented any evidence that in general white-collar criminals are treated more harshly than other criminals.
I don't claim that Windows thread pools are equivalent to GCD, but you can have the OS handle asynchronous tasks using the thread pool without having to concern yourself with threads explicitly.
Yeah, you beat me to it. Sounds like another case of confusing copyright with patents.
does he get derivative works?
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